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The use of complementary and alternative medicine by people with cardiovascular disease: a systematic review

BACKGROUND: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may offer benefits as well as risks to people with cardiovascular disease. Understanding the prevalence and the nature of CAM use will encourage beneficial CAM therapies, prevent potential herb-drug interactions and foster communication betwee...

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Autores principales: Grant, Suzanne J, Bin, Yu Sun, Kiat, Hosen, Chang, Dennis Hsu-Tung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22536991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-299
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Bin, Yu Sun
Kiat, Hosen
Chang, Dennis Hsu-Tung
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description BACKGROUND: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may offer benefits as well as risks to people with cardiovascular disease. Understanding the prevalence and the nature of CAM use will encourage beneficial CAM therapies, prevent potential herb-drug interactions and foster communication between patients and physicians. METHODS: A systematic search of eight bibliographic databases was conducted for studies that investigated CAM use in patients with cardiovascular diseases. Two independent reviewers selected relevant abstracts and evaluated the quality of included studies. RESULTS: Twenty-seven studies were included. Prevalence of CAM use in cardiac patients ranged from 4% - 61%. Biologically-based therapies usage ranged from 22% to 68%. Herbal medicines were used by between 2% and 46%. A large proportion of patients did not inform medical practitioners about their CAM use and up to 90% of treating physicians did not discuss CAM use with their patients. CONCLUSIONS: CAM use in patients with cardiovascular disease appears common. The findings suggest that the effects of CAM on medical management of cardiovascular disease may be overlooked and that patient-physician communication need to be strengthened.
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spelling pubmed-34443682012-09-18 The use of complementary and alternative medicine by people with cardiovascular disease: a systematic review Grant, Suzanne J Bin, Yu Sun Kiat, Hosen Chang, Dennis Hsu-Tung BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may offer benefits as well as risks to people with cardiovascular disease. Understanding the prevalence and the nature of CAM use will encourage beneficial CAM therapies, prevent potential herb-drug interactions and foster communication between patients and physicians. METHODS: A systematic search of eight bibliographic databases was conducted for studies that investigated CAM use in patients with cardiovascular diseases. Two independent reviewers selected relevant abstracts and evaluated the quality of included studies. RESULTS: Twenty-seven studies were included. Prevalence of CAM use in cardiac patients ranged from 4% - 61%. Biologically-based therapies usage ranged from 22% to 68%. Herbal medicines were used by between 2% and 46%. A large proportion of patients did not inform medical practitioners about their CAM use and up to 90% of treating physicians did not discuss CAM use with their patients. CONCLUSIONS: CAM use in patients with cardiovascular disease appears common. The findings suggest that the effects of CAM on medical management of cardiovascular disease may be overlooked and that patient-physician communication need to be strengthened. BioMed Central 2012-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3444368/ /pubmed/22536991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-299 Text en Copyright ©2012 Grant et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22536991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-299
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